, 1887-12-29

S'oW'bB uHuiciHi StTInBcucy, Wn'
taken under control by u citizen,
association OF 3O, who each assumed
$1,000 responsibility, with the pledge
that ut tho ensuing spring election
the city should vote to reimburse
them, and accept proprietary con-
troll. The spirit manifested In meet.
ing this c,itical emergency, and OF
turning over the valuable franchise
10 the city was u gratifying revela'
tion Of the loyalty Of our citizens to
the city's best interest. Our. two
hose companies were organized dur
ing the year and did some valuable
service ut the three lires whicl,
Threatened to devastnte the city.
Besides the bricks put up this sea-
frame between the Central block
frame whore Hyde's block now
next hts brick; Moore & Cutter, a
through the fire the middle Of last
month; ]. Lange, enc on the corner
OF Howard and Sprngue; Wither.
spoon 4 Kinney built two on the Up.
posite corner OF Sprague, the first
tember fire. Loewenberg Bros.
bought ont the mercantile busln. IS of
Chas. Sweeny & Co., and tho Great
Eastern Go. established the fine bus.
inass they are still conducting.
The winter Of 1916 hegan to look
blue to many Of our business men
and few of the smaller ontert rises
let 90 their grip, but there was no
at,nh ~ nj ~ nd In pY,avn nf tho
older cities. Mr.. Paul f. Mohr, who
had began late in the fnil of 'S4 TO
study the value Of the water power,
undertook to organize syndicate of
eastern capitalists to furnish S40C, ,000
to purchase the water power, and
the prospect OF succeeding In this
undertaking helped to buoy up the
situation. The financial stri0gency
was, however, too apparent, and the
project lapsed. Early In February,
II. NJ. Mccartney succeed in getting
a contract TO furnish supplies, via
the COlville valley and Columbia
river for the construction force on
The Canadian Pacific road, and the
building Of steam boat at the Little
Dalles, together with the collection
OF supplies, afforded timely relief
and kept the wheels OF improve.
ment in motion. This, with the
of prospecting in Col.
Vile valley, notably the discovery
Of the Old Dominion claim. the
brighter outlook In the Occur d'
Alenes, which now began to develop
from a placer to n quartz camp, re.
newed the fires OF euthuslasni, and
Spokane faced the hard times with
mr. "A q exp - mi al
voted +, at the April election. with
hardly a dissenting vote, to assume
the control Of The water works. The
Catholic church was erected and the
college building advanced to com.
pietion. Mr.. Van Vnlkenberg put
up an extension to Jamei soma block,
tire Spokane Lumber ana. NsnxssV
turing Co. wasNorganized and begsh
laying the foundations for their
present extensive works, Clark &
Curtis erected the G. & &. mills, an
electric light plant was put into op.
GRAFTON by Geo. Fitch, the Spokane
Manufacturing Co. started with
modest beginnings on Post street
developing the next year into the
powerful plant south of the railroad
station, and surveys were mnde un.
der Paul +. Mohr for the Spokane &
Palouse railroad. A strong move
was also made at the session OF the
legislature to secure the passage Of
an act 10 enable the count to vote
on the re-location OF the county scat,
which was pissed. The organiza-
tlon of the Traders National bank
in November was n bright harbinger,
and me year closed with unusually
bright prospects.
The spring oi 's6 opened up lively
and transferred It's vigorous gait on
to summer md fall. The first branch
railway, the Spokane g. Palouse, was
to be an undcnlable fact. Its eetab-
with Spokane rs the ter.
minus, had heeE secured by the un-
remitting efforts Of Messrs. A. NJ.
Cannon and Paul f. Mohr, who we're
respec ectively chosen as president and
chief engineer, and began grading
with the earliest dawn of spring.
The vast silver and galena deposits
Of the South Fork Of tho Occur
d. Alere river were brought more
prominently to light, and tho fuller
for Spokane of these
great mineral discoveries began to
be more generally appreciated. Cap.
italIsts inspected the situation and
that there must be an outlet
for the ore, and early In the season
a company was formed to construct
a railway to Occur d'Alene lake,
which was later In the season trans
ferred, with tho Ceur d'Alene Navi.
gatlO CO., to a company who built
and operated 10 under the title of
the Spokane & Idahc r Il. Co.. In
iho i0fprQst nj fhe Npr,herp Daci0c
Montana capitalists extended the
highway to the mines, by building
farther on from Mission, the head Of
navigation, to Wardner. The first
street railrnad company, set on foot